1 Para

The 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, better known as 1 Para, is an elite component of the United Kingdom's special forces. 1 Para was formed in 1941, and it took part in the Tunisia campaign of World War II from late 1942 to May 1943, suffering heavy casualties; 1 Para also fought in Italy and France before it was mauled in Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands in 1944, ending its role in the war. In 1948, it was re-created, and it saw action in the Suez Crisis in Egypt in 1956, in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, in the Kosovo War of 1999, in the Sierra Leonean Civil War in 2000, and the Iraq War after 2003. 1 Para is famous for its role in British wars as an elite special forces formation, but it is infamous for its massacres of Irish Catholic civilians in 1971-1972 during The Troubles.